Linking Fantasy and Informational Texts - Internet Workshop
- Article: for Discovery Memo: Internet Workshop: Making Time for Literacy (Leu, 2002)
- Websites featured during class Powerpoint presentation
- Fantasy and Non-Fiction: Guardians of Ga'Hoole
- Biography: Children's Encyclopedia of Women
- Biography and Non-Fiction: Bicycle Heroes: Two Centuries
- Sample Interdisciplinary Connections: Scholastic Literacy Place, Grade 5 Connections
- Scholastic's Sampling of Interactive Activities and Interdisciplinary Connections: Grades K-2 and 3-5
- Magic Treehouse: Vacation Under a Volcano
- A Teacher's Guide for Vacation Under a Volcano from Random House
- Mary Pope Osborne's Homepage>>
- Magic Treehouse Site from Random House Kids
- Podcast with Mary Pope Osborne
- INTERNET WORKSHOP BOOK ACTIVITY
- Three Star Internet Project Teachers:
- Marci McGowan: Grades 1 and 2 - see her list of Internet Projects
- Mary Kruel's Blog: Grade 4 (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin) - see links to other classrooms on upper left corner
- Susan Silverman: Grades K-6
- Online Critical Evaluation Reading Strategies: Don't Buy It! Get Media Smart Activity and Teacher's Guide from PBS
- Leu, Leu, & Coiro (2004). Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times includes three other instructional models for teaching with the Internet, including Internet Project, Webquests, and Internet Inquiry. Some of the ideas are outlined on the website, including the basic guidelines for the instructional models, ideas for language arts classes, and ideas for young children in the primary grades or children with special needs.